You forgot the people posting from podunk coal towns with no other industry who could give a crap if the world collapses as long as they get to keep their jobs and live in their tiny little racist enclaves until then.
Every country, since the dawn of ever, spies on every other country. It's expected and it prevents diplomatic misunderstandings, especially amongst allies.
If you knew anything about computer history you'd know that the GUI was inevitable. Steve & Bill may have popularized GUI interfaces through their positions but they weren't the only people thinking about computer graphics. In the same year the Macintosh was released 1984, Digital Research announced GEM & MIT announced X, Xerox was already developing their own graphics system.
In 1985 we got GEOS, AmigaOS, and the first shaky Windows.
The world could have gotten along fine without Apple or Microsoft. I personally would have been happy with an Amiga dominated PC industry. Hell, people were quite happy with VisiCalc before Excel ever appeared, and IBM did most of the work of killing off VisiCalc with Lotus-1-2-3, the first graphical spreadsheet program.
Speaking of myopic, most Apple fans would believe Apple not only invented fire, but made fire more stylish and desirable if Apple told them so.
...Just in the last week, I have seen spreadsheets used for a program logic workflow, a timetable, a university course schedule, to compute an FFT, to exchange student marks, to discuss a budget (with lots of deletions and remarks), and even for a presentation. In each and every case a more suitable, open-source, freely available, multi-platform application exists.
You've just stated the reason people use spreadsheets right there. One multi-purpose program vs umpteen specialist programs, each with their own UI quirks that have to be learned to make the most use of the programs. Why bother when a good old spreadsheet will work.
Or possibly stop using a Mac and switch to the platform it's optimized for, ie PC. Apple may own the phone, but they're still 2nd bastard cousin on the desktop.
Besides, are you authorized by Cupertino to use ghetto opensource software on their sleek Williams Sonoma OS? Aren't you supposed to be using iLife or whatever it is the reanimated corpse of Steve masturbated out of his dessicated gonads? Wouldn't surprise me if there's code in the OS to slow down unapproved applications just to keep you in the Apple fence line anyway.
People use the tools they are familiar with. There are plenty of business types who are goddamn magic wizards with a spreadsheet who completely freeze up at the thought of putting a database together. I've seen spreadsheets clicking over into the 3-400mb range that have been used for years in organizations and you know it could be managed much more efficiently, yet people resist because it's easier for them to make quick modifications than passing along requests to a database admin.
You claim it's an absurd monopoly, but offer nothing to prove monopoly (most cities have more than one taxi service) nor why it's absurd. The laws regulating taxi services didn't come out of nowhere for no reason. At one time taxi's were unencumbered with regulations and as people were cheated, swindled, injured, griped to their local representatives, bit by bit regulations were forced onto the industry to keep things reasonably fair and responsible. That's the problem with people who don't understand history, and only see that they can't have their own way.
Unless you own stock in Uber, why are you a supporter exactly? Does Uber come home with you and give you a blowie or something? Was Uber best corporation at your wedding?
We also have laws against just randomly shooting your neighbors. Either you respect that some laws exist for good reasons or you chuck them all and live in anarchy. A corporation is not a person. A corporation only wants laws relaxed so they can maximize profits, not because of any moral reason.
The truth is that the laws over taxi services have been built over decades to try to balance the needs of businesses with protection of the customer. Uber only wants to skirt those laws because meeting them would cut into their profits, not because of some great liberation of the people.
I swear, some of you capitalism apologists won't be happy until corporations are back to selling toys with razor sharp edges that catch fire as soon as they're unpacked, food "bulked up" with rat droppings and rope, whatever it takes as long as profits aren't harmed.
..we don't have to obey those pesky laws! Our founders are all Libertarians/Randian Objectivists, laws are for poor people! Haven't you read Fountainhead?? Arblegarblewarble!!!
I've often thought the greatest mystery in the world was how corporations convince otherwise rational people to sacrifice their lives, their health, their families all in the name of "THE TEAM" or "THE COMPANY", as if the company will ever return even 1/10th of that devotion to the employees. Corporations are the ultimate Stockholm Syndrome with some serious Manchurian Candidate brainwashing behind them.
When a company lets a group's "culture" set the terms for hiring, that's when you end up with only one kind of worker (DudeBros) who cluelessly say they don't discriminate, that black/woman/asian/etc didn't fit the "culture". It's pathetic because it's so transparent. It's like churches whining that their right to discriminate is being discriminated against.
Ask a Native American about land being stolen. Ask the natives of South America about land being stolen.
But I said resources, which is more than just land. It's minerals and the rights to mine them given over to colonial corporations at the point of a gun, it's timber and oil and water and anything else that has even a glimmer of monetary value.
Regardless, you seem to cling to your stupidity like a man on the edge of a cliff clings to God, so desperate to be right you won't even try to save yourself. I'm done with you as well.
Having an outlet for these kinds of things is not necessarily better. It gives disparate people a platform to share their ideas, normalize their behavior and validate themselves and each other. It's a double edged sword.
As far as giving people a heads up, that's nonsense because most of these people spew their idiocy under anonymous accounts. You could be sitting next to an otherwise seemingly normal person and never know they spend their days upvoting pictures of 9 year olds in sexually suggestive poses. If the accounts were tied to their real names and addresses, there would be far far fewer people creating these sorts of forums.
Who said anything about illegality? It's not illegal to say "No thanks, your behavior is not welcome here."
Allowing things to grow in the dark is a lot of the problem! That's how you get ISIS or the KKK.
So glad to know that the defenders of free speech still have a place to share pictures of underage girls, openly discus raping those underage girls, share racist rants and generally discuss how those uppity bitches are keeping men down. Our founding fathers would weep.
The more you speak the more the stupid comes out of your mouth.
They're the ones that are outstripping their OWN ability to maintain themselves
Really? Because the West didn't already strip their countries bare after centuries of exploitation as colonies, and now via mega-corporations that prop up our unsustainable lifestyles? Our very economy depends on an uneven arrangement of low offshore wages and cheap foreign resources. We've destabilized governments to ensure that we narrow few remain on top.
Not that you'll admit it. Blind idiocy such as yours can't afford to admit to mistakes. You gloss over the inequities of the world and pretend that everyone got an equal start so it's their fault if they can't catch up. You are a living banner for everything stupid and vile in this country.
As for not being worth a thinking person's time, well if you actually tried thinking once in a while I wouldn't have to keep confronting the nonsense you spew into this discourse.
Oh, the WEST isn't in danger of over populating itself! Well well, that's awesome. Screw all those other people outside that great big giant wall we have that separates us from the rest of the world!! Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendages that nothing that happens in the world would ever effect us here in the WEST!
You are about the biggest example of a horse's ass I think I've ever seen.
..the a large copyright aggregator like Rumblefish comes along, claims over and over again that they own the rights getting your accounts suspended while they rake off a profit from their own monetization of said music.
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You forgot the people posting from podunk coal towns with no other industry who could give a crap if the world collapses as long as they get to keep their jobs and live in their tiny little racist enclaves until then.
Every country, since the dawn of ever, spies on every other country. It's expected and it prevents diplomatic misunderstandings, especially amongst allies.
If you knew anything about computer history you'd know that the GUI was inevitable. Steve & Bill may have popularized GUI interfaces through their positions but they weren't the only people thinking about computer graphics. In the same year the Macintosh was released 1984, Digital Research announced GEM & MIT announced X, Xerox was already developing their own graphics system.
In 1985 we got GEOS, AmigaOS, and the first shaky Windows.
The world could have gotten along fine without Apple or Microsoft. I personally would have been happy with an Amiga dominated PC industry. Hell, people were quite happy with VisiCalc before Excel ever appeared, and IBM did most of the work of killing off VisiCalc with Lotus-1-2-3, the first graphical spreadsheet program.
Speaking of myopic, most Apple fans would believe Apple not only invented fire, but made fire more stylish and desirable if Apple told them so.
...Just in the last week, I have seen spreadsheets used for a program logic workflow, a timetable, a university course schedule, to compute an FFT, to exchange student marks, to discuss a budget (with lots of deletions and remarks), and even for a presentation. In each and every case a more suitable, open-source, freely available, multi-platform application exists.
You've just stated the reason people use spreadsheets right there. One multi-purpose program vs umpteen specialist programs, each with their own UI quirks that have to be learned to make the most use of the programs. Why bother when a good old spreadsheet will work.
Or possibly stop using a Mac and switch to the platform it's optimized for, ie PC. Apple may own the phone, but they're still 2nd bastard cousin on the desktop.
Besides, are you authorized by Cupertino to use ghetto opensource software on their sleek Williams Sonoma OS? Aren't you supposed to be using iLife or whatever it is the reanimated corpse of Steve masturbated out of his dessicated gonads? Wouldn't surprise me if there's code in the OS to slow down unapproved applications just to keep you in the Apple fence line anyway.
People use the tools they are familiar with. There are plenty of business types who are goddamn magic wizards with a spreadsheet who completely freeze up at the thought of putting a database together. I've seen spreadsheets clicking over into the 3-400mb range that have been used for years in organizations and you know it could be managed much more efficiently, yet people resist because it's easier for them to make quick modifications than passing along requests to a database admin.
Optional, but enabled by default.
You claim it's an absurd monopoly, but offer nothing to prove monopoly (most cities have more than one taxi service) nor why it's absurd. The laws regulating taxi services didn't come out of nowhere for no reason. At one time taxi's were unencumbered with regulations and as people were cheated, swindled, injured, griped to their local representatives, bit by bit regulations were forced onto the industry to keep things reasonably fair and responsible. That's the problem with people who don't understand history, and only see that they can't have their own way.
Unless you own stock in Uber, why are you a supporter exactly? Does Uber come home with you and give you a blowie or something? Was Uber best corporation at your wedding?
We also have laws against just randomly shooting your neighbors. Either you respect that some laws exist for good reasons or you chuck them all and live in anarchy. A corporation is not a person. A corporation only wants laws relaxed so they can maximize profits, not because of any moral reason.
The truth is that the laws over taxi services have been built over decades to try to balance the needs of businesses with protection of the customer. Uber only wants to skirt those laws because meeting them would cut into their profits, not because of some great liberation of the people.
I swear, some of you capitalism apologists won't be happy until corporations are back to selling toys with razor sharp edges that catch fire as soon as they're unpacked, food "bulked up" with rat droppings and rope, whatever it takes as long as profits aren't harmed.
..we don't have to obey those pesky laws! Our founders are all Libertarians/Randian Objectivists, laws are for poor people! Haven't you read Fountainhead?? Arblegarblewarble!!!
I've often thought the greatest mystery in the world was how corporations convince otherwise rational people to sacrifice their lives, their health, their families all in the name of "THE TEAM" or "THE COMPANY", as if the company will ever return even 1/10th of that devotion to the employees. Corporations are the ultimate Stockholm Syndrome with some serious Manchurian Candidate brainwashing behind them.
When a company lets a group's "culture" set the terms for hiring, that's when you end up with only one kind of worker (DudeBros) who cluelessly say they don't discriminate, that black/woman/asian/etc didn't fit the "culture". It's pathetic because it's so transparent. It's like churches whining that their right to discriminate is being discriminated against.
For one, a lot of corporations and governments won't use formats that aren't approved by a standards body.
And you continue to buzz, annoying yet impotent.
You're still talking? Geez, it's like having a mosquito buzzing constantly. Annoying, small and inconsequential.
Why are you still talking to me? Oh right, crazy people never shut up.
Ask a Native American about land being stolen. Ask the natives of South America about land being stolen.
But I said resources, which is more than just land. It's minerals and the rights to mine them given over to colonial corporations at the point of a gun, it's timber and oil and water and anything else that has even a glimmer of monetary value.
Regardless, you seem to cling to your stupidity like a man on the edge of a cliff clings to God, so desperate to be right you won't even try to save yourself. I'm done with you as well.
I'd like to offer some counterpoints:
Having an outlet for these kinds of things is not necessarily better. It gives disparate people a platform to share their ideas, normalize their behavior and validate themselves and each other. It's a double edged sword.
As far as giving people a heads up, that's nonsense because most of these people spew their idiocy under anonymous accounts. You could be sitting next to an otherwise seemingly normal person and never know they spend their days upvoting pictures of 9 year olds in sexually suggestive poses. If the accounts were tied to their real names and addresses, there would be far far fewer people creating these sorts of forums.
Who said anything about illegality? It's not illegal to say "No thanks, your behavior is not welcome here."
Allowing things to grow in the dark is a lot of the problem! That's how you get ISIS or the KKK.
At least if Jefferson posted to /r/Coontown, it would be full of gravitas!
So glad to know that the defenders of free speech still have a place to share pictures of underage girls, openly discus raping those underage girls, share racist rants and generally discuss how those uppity bitches are keeping men down. Our founding fathers would weep.
The more you speak the more the stupid comes out of your mouth.
They're the ones that are outstripping their OWN ability to maintain themselves
Really? Because the West didn't already strip their countries bare after centuries of exploitation as colonies, and now via mega-corporations that prop up our unsustainable lifestyles? Our very economy depends on an uneven arrangement of low offshore wages and cheap foreign resources. We've destabilized governments to ensure that we narrow few remain on top.
Not that you'll admit it. Blind idiocy such as yours can't afford to admit to mistakes. You gloss over the inequities of the world and pretend that everyone got an equal start so it's their fault if they can't catch up. You are a living banner for everything stupid and vile in this country.
As for not being worth a thinking person's time, well if you actually tried thinking once in a while I wouldn't have to keep confronting the nonsense you spew into this discourse.
Oh, the WEST isn't in danger of over populating itself! Well well, that's awesome. Screw all those other people outside that great big giant wall we have that separates us from the rest of the world!! Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendages that nothing that happens in the world would ever effect us here in the WEST!
You are about the biggest example of a horse's ass I think I've ever seen.
No, really.
Yeah, because struggling artists are well known for their crack legal teams.
..the a large copyright aggregator like Rumblefish comes along, claims over and over again that they own the rights getting your accounts suspended while they rake off a profit from their own monetization of said music.